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This thread will attempt to provide a place to discuss past/present/future PC gaming deals. While mainly focusing on Steam games, any standout sales may also be presented. I will not be updating every Daily/Weekly/etc. sale. The tools to help individuals become a smarter shopper will be provided below.

See this POST for links to store sale pages, threads of interest and other tools to help you become a more informed PC game shopper.
 
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MysterD said:
Some thoughts on linking-up PC and HDTV's:

- You send the signal virtually & digitally (from PC to HDTV) if you have the means to do & it ain't far away...i.e. some TV's have built in Steam Link, such as some Samsung HDTV's.

- Steam has built-in controller support for all kinds of different controllers.
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I totally forgot about Steam link! Appreciate the tip!

Also appreciate the tips on Epic store!

Also shocked that I got notice that it was shipping yesterday and will have it today!

 
Finally decided to try a game to flex my new PC build and test it out.  Tried Shadow of Tomb Raider.  I maxed everything to ultra, even the ray traced shadows, and set it at 1440p 144hz.  (my monitor is only 2k, also need to upgrade to HDR at some point, maybe and OLED like my tvs, but anyway..)

Holy crap it looks amazing.  Runs extremely smooth and pretty.  Going to look at Doom next on gamepass, but I need to update my gpu drivers first.

 
dualrec said:
Finally decided to try a game to flex my new PC build and test it out. Tried Shadow of Tomb Raider. I maxed everything to ultra, even the ray traced shadows, and set it at 1440p 144hz. (my monitor is only 2k, also need to upgrade to HDR at some point, maybe and OLED like my tvs, but anyway..)

Holy crap it looks amazing. Runs extremely smooth and pretty. Going to look at Doom next on gamepass, but I need to update my gpu drivers first.
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Awesome!

Yes, I think when done right, RT can really enhance a scene - and this is definitely true in games like WD: Legion and Cyberpunk 2077 where reflections from water puddles and other things that are all over the place can really enhance a scene and/or an area.

Also, Metro Exodus Enhanced looks amazing with it on and everything cranked-up - and it doesn't perform that much different than the OG version only provided you have RT hardware, since they tossed out all of the 50000 baked lighting tricks. All of those baked-tricks mixed w/ RT can cause more performance hits, when cranking RT to the moon. I can't wait to see more games basically go only straight-up RT.

I'll sure it'll help development too, as they ain't got to spend hours-to-days or more just baking the lighting of a scene, guessing and betting they got it right - and/or maybe fixing it, if it ain't correct. They can instead spend more time, money, resources, and employees on actually making real content.

EDIT - Hopefully soon, the industry (NVidia and AMD) can get those shortage problems, problems of shipping and whatnot all solved; just to all of this amazing tech in gamers' hands and we can get amazing lighting on everything, in due time.

 
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MysterD said:
Awesome!

Yes, I think when done right, RT can really enhance a scene - and this is definitely true in games like WD: Legion and Cyberpunk 2077 where reflections from water puddles and other things that are all over the place can really enhance a scene and/or an area.

Also, Metro Exodus Enhanced looks amazing with it on and everything cranked-up - and it doesn't perform that much different than the OG version only provided you have RT hardware, since they tossed out all of the 50000 baked lighting tricks. All of those baked-tricks mixed w/ RT can cause more performance hits, when cranking RT to the moon. I can't wait to see more games basically go only straight-up RT.

I'll sure it'll help development too, as they ain't got to spend hours-to-days or more just baking the lighting of a scene, guessing and betting they got it right - and/or maybe fixing it, if it ain't correct. They can instead spend more time, money, resources, and employees on actually making real content.
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I'll check out metro. Played it already on xbox a while back. One day I'll have to definitely invest in a HDR monitor, because I'm new to PC world and didn't realize the 3060 Ti setup could out perform a Series X. Time to start the research on monitors :) Fun stuff.

 
Steam Deck comes today (literally as I typed this switched to tomorrow)

In celebration here are keys, hoping this time the games are better than last time!

I kept --> Blue Fire (was on wish list)/ Renoir (looked interesting)

Pilot Brothers 3: Back Side of Earth (didn't keep the other 2 so why start now?)

L3ZI4-GI98Z-F5D5C

Deponia (never could get into this series)

NB4XZ-8EHX3-X76RF

Men of War: Red Tide (already owned)

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A New Beginning: Final Cut (not my style)

5XDND-W79QM-ZYGH7

Anna's Quest (passed on this before)

VDHGM-86I3X-WDF8J

El Matador (owned)

BK8EC-8NIL2-A46E7

1954 Alcatraz (point and click)

B9BDE-7KJFG-K4RT9

Chaos on Deponia (see above)

M5J9P-KTWKT-WAGHB

 
dualrec said:
my monitor is only 2k, also need to upgrade to HDR at some point, maybe and OLED like my tvs
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So.... run a hdmi 2.1 cable to your oled tv. This is how I play most games these days. Toggle primary display automatically with steam big picture mode (even for non-steam apps) + wireless controller.

I really only use my monitor if a game is particularly well suited to ultrawide resolution (or the occasional fps with kb/m). Lighter stuff is directed to steam deck. Happy to see Persona 4 Golden verified recently - they fixed the audio bugs I posted about a while back.

 
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Happy to see Persona 4 Golden verified recently

gospelman said:
Happy to see Persona 4 Golden verified recently...
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How similar is Persona 4 to 5 (only ever played 5 and while it is good, I do not really see it as one of the best...seems deisgned for multiple playthroughs, but who has time for that?

 
valiki7375 said:
Happy to see Persona 4 Golden verified recently

How similar is Persona 4 to 5 (only ever played 5 and while it is good, I do not really see it as one of the best...seems deisgned for multiple playthroughs, but who has time for that?
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They're extremely similar. If you didn't love 5, you probably won't love 4 (though I do think 4 has a far better story than 5). The basic formula of dungeon crawl followed by multiple days of resource management is used in both.

 
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How similar is Persona 4 to 5 (only ever played 5 and while it is good, I do not really see it as one of the best...seems deisgned for multiple playthroughs, but who has time for that?
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P4G is still my favorite just because I enjoy the dialogue a lot more. In structure it will be very similar to P5. So if you found P5 too long, i'll admit it may not be your cup of tea.

 
I liked Persona 4's mystery a lot more, and the dungeons being character themed was cool. I liked the characters a lot more too, and anyone who doesn't like Nanako is heartless. I actually preferred Persona 3 a bit more, but it felt more like an SMT original game with a lot of philosophical talk. The Sun social link (dying young man), was probably my favorite social link out of any of these games. Note I didn't complete P5 fully yet after about 90 hours. I have 2 dungeons to go I think, but will just restart it in P5 Royal eventually. 

 
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Dying Light 1.

Dying Light 1 Standard Edition owners can upgrade to Enhanced Edition for FREE now:

- Tweet from Dying Light crew on this.

- More info on Steam here on auto-upgrade to EE.

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Persona 5 > 4 > 3, but only by the slimmest of margins. They are all certainly worth playing. I actually think Persona 3 has the potential to be the best in the series if Atlus would remake it and give it some small tweaks
 
It's going to be very hard to go back and play 3 & 4 if you played Persona 5 as your first and you didn't enjoy it.

For their time (at year of release), I'd say 3 > 5 > 4.  But the presentation, character and sound design, and quality of life improvements in P5 cannot be understated.  P3 still has its hooks in me. 

 
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gospelman said:
So.... run a hdmi 2.1 cable to your oled tv. This is how I play most games these days. Toggle primary display automatically with steam big picture mode (even for non-steam apps) + wireless controller.

I really only use my monitor if a game is particularly well suited to ultrawide resolution (or the occasional fps with kb/m). Lighter stuff is directed to steam deck. Happy to see Persona 4 Golden verified recently - they fixed the audio bugs I posted about a while back.
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Yeah... good idea...but that'd make my silly ass want to upgrade the pc to a card that could run 4k 120fps with hdr 🤣.... and I can't afford that yet. I'll try to just enjoy my 2k non hdr at 144 for a while and console game on the oled.
 
Tried doom eternal on the pc. This 3060 ti running strong. Ultra nightmare graphics settings with ray tracing set to 144 fps target... 144 and no dips below 100 so far. With no ray tracing it never budges from 144. I realize all this is only 2k non hdr, but good stuff. Very happy with my modest pc build.
 
Mafia 4.

Sources:

PushSquare.

Kotaku.

Notes:

- Mafia 4 is early in development & going to utilizing Unreal Engine 5.
- Supposedly, Mafia 4 will be a Prequel to the Mafia Trilogy.

- Hangar 13 has been through a lot of lay-offs & overhaul with its staff since Mafia III.

- Hangar 13 head Haden Blackman is leaving the company & so is Chief Operating Officer Matthew Urban.

 
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It's going to be very hard to go back and play 3 & 4 if you played Persona 5 as your first and you didn't enjoy it.
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Well yeah idk why anyone would want to play P3 or P4 if they didn't like P5

blueweltall said:
Did you ever get the chance to play P3 Portable?
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It'a good for what it is, has some good exclusive music and story bits, and impressive that they managed to put all that on a PSP disc. But I'd still play the PS2 version first
 
I'm a P3 FES guy through and through. I know the auto battling is weird for your other characters, but you get used to it. In going to P3P (which some people like a lot cause of the extra social links, girl MC, being able to control others, simpler UI etc...), I like what I mentioned, but I also think the graphics are a decent bit worse, I miss the cinematics and being able to explore the world, and I also miss the FES content. Frankly if they combined both it would be great, and maybe someday Atlus will remake it. I'm assuming it will happen in the next 10 years or so. Persona 3 has it's claws in me too, and I like it better than 4 and 5. For me it's 3 > 4 > 5, but they're all great games, and the steps in liking one more than the others aren't as steep as other series. An example is FF6 > FF7 > FF9 > FF5 > FF4 > FF10 > FF12 > FF8 > FF1 > FF15, and the steps after FF9 are pretty large. I haven't Played FF14, 11 (other than a trial), 2 (fully), 3 or anything 13. I love the Persona games and even like the clunkier Persona 2 parts (good stories and characters).

 
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Just received the email to order my Steam Deck. The calculator to determine order availability based on "reserve time" was accurate. Now it is going to be a long 5 or so days waiting for shipping.

 
I definitely prefer p3p over the other 2 versions purely on the merits of it having the male party member and other new s links for the femc side along with the controllable party members which the other 2 games leave to ai. And the ai in vanilla p3 is really really terrible. fes was an improvement but still inefficient to just controlling them manually. 

Now if you have the characters battling by themselves/with other party members while exploring dungeon maps that's different.  As it allows you to heal them infinitely basically and allows them to bypass weakness/resistance/absorb/null and such system elemental system. I never got why they took it away in the other games.

But yeah the original s links in 3 were pretty awful for the most part.  Especially moon. 

 


nitrosmob said:
I'm a P3 FES guy through and through. I know the auto battling is weird for your other characters, but you get used to it. In going to P3P (which some people like a lot cause of the extra social links, girl MC, being able to control others, simpler UI etc...), I like what I mentioned, but I also think the graphics are a decent bit worse, I miss the cinematics and being able to explore the world, and I also miss the FES content.
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FES is the definitive way to play P3. I love FeMC, but losing the animated cutscenes is big, and you really don't feel the impact of the gradual changes to the town when you're only exploring stills with a cursor. The companion AI is also a lot stupider in P3P than in FES—it isn't hard to win battles if you use the party commands judiciously, and honestly, I always felt like being unable to command your party members directly made them feel more like real characters you were interacting with. The little additions to gameplay that were backported from P4 also don't really fit very well into P3's overall structure, and endgame grind, if you want to bother with it, is so much easier—or at least cheaper—in FES, where you can just nuke everything with Armageddon and then Victory Cry to restore all SP. Armageddon costs a ton of money in P3P. And yes, you can abuse Armageddon on bosses if you have no discipline and can't help yourself, but by the time you get it, the only bosses left to abuse are, what, Reaper and Nyx? And because of the nature of Nyx's fight, Victory Cry doesn't even help. And most of these reasons apply to vanilla P3, which is why I'd even recommend that over P3P, at least for your first playthrough.
 
Playing Diablo II Resurrected on the Steam Deck is a pretty stellar experience. Just feels significantly better than the Switch. The Epic store really needs a native app … it’s not unusable but it would be nice to have something built for for Deck. Either way, loading it up wasn’t hard and it downloads all those free games you guys have been hating on over the years 😜. Feels like the Deck has a ton of potential, even if this version is sort of a beta test for better things to come.
 
Nothing- said:
It's going to be very hard to go back and play 3 & 4 if you played Persona 5 as your first and you didn't enjoy it.

For their time (at year of release), I'd say 3 > 5 > 4. But the presentation, character and sound design, and quality of life improvements in P5 cannot be understated. P3 still has its hooks in me.
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When you say "quality of life" it really annoys me that once in a dungeon (P5) you can only save in certain areas. Nothing sucks more than coming up against a batttle of a relative nobody and getting smashed. I put P4 Golden on wishlist. Always up for a good story!

 
If you are looking for a good story in p4 you're not likely to find one. I liked p4 quite a bit and it has some good ideas but the scoobydoo story with the horrible writing was not one of them.

It's also close to guide dang it to get the normal ending let alone the true ending.

The anime and hiimdaisy vid were better at utilizing and embracing the comedic tone p4 has.
 
Persona 4 has several strong LGBT undertones.  Possibly overt overtones?  I'm surprised that I hardly see that mentioned whenever it comes up.  There are very prominent queer, trans, and identity themes throughout the story.  From a game that came out all the way back in 2008.  I think that's one reason why some people love that title so much. 

 
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Persona 4 has several strong LGBT undertones. Possibly overt overtones? I'm surprised that I hardly see that mentioned whenever it comes up. There are very prominent queer, trans, and identity themes throughout the story. From a game that came out all the way back in 2008. I think that's one reason why some people love that title so much.
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Ehhh. Gender identity and sexual preference were both brought up and explored in a limited fashion, among several other aspects of self-discovery that the party members’ shadows provoke, but those threads wind up resolving themselves in fairly heteronormative ways. Sure, for a video game in 2008, that’s still decent representation, but there were a couple actual same sex romances in P3P just a year later.
 
Humble Bundle.

Doom: Eternal - 48 Hour Flash Sale:

Notes:

- These are Bethesda.Net keys.

- These Bethesda.Net keys as is will activate-up on Steam, according to Reddit.

Doom: Eternal (base-game only) = $13.19

Doom: Eternal - Digital Deluxe Edition = $23.09

Includes -> Doom: Eternal (base-game); Year One Pass; Two campaign add-ons (The Ancient Ones Part 1 & 2); Demonic Slayer Skin; Classic Weapon Sound Pack; Throwback sound-effects for your DOOM Eternal guns.

 
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Just a note I got this from Fanatical for about $19 for the deluxe a bit back (was a deal of the day), so not the most amazing prices. This reminded me I haven't done the transfer yet.

 
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Persona 4 has several strong LGBT undertones. Possibly overt overtones? I'm surprised that I hardly see that mentioned whenever it comes up. There are very prominent queer, trans, and identity themes throughout the story. From a game that came out all the way back in 2008. I think that's one reason why some people love that title so much.
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characters crossdressing/ gender swapping has been a thing in anime/jrpg for quite some time. players who familiar with the genre have accepted it as commonplace, while players experiencing it for the first time are probably like,

"WELL THAT'S JAPAN FOR YA!!!"

 
shrinerr said:
characters crossdressing/ gender swapping has been a thing in anime/jrpg for quite some time. players who familiar with the genre have accepted it as commonplace, while players experiencing it for the first time are probably like,

"WELL THAT'S JAPAN FOR YA!!!"
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I don’t think he was talking about the crossdressing, which was largely played for laughs.
 
Nothing- said:
Persona 4 has several strong LGBT undertones. Possibly overt overtones? I'm surprised that I hardly see that mentioned whenever it comes up. There are very prominent queer, trans, and identity themes throughout the story. From a game that came out all the way back in 2008. I think that's one reason why some people love that title so much.
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I dunno I feel like there weren't any in it. The deepest it went was Kanji being insecure about his masculinity and naoto binding her breasts.

Souffrir said:
Ehhh. Gender identity and sexual preference were both brought up and explored in a limited fashion, among several other aspects of self-discovery that the party members’ shadows provoke, but those threads wind up resolving themselves in fairly heteronormative ways. Sure, for a video game in 2008, that’s still decent representation, but there were a couple actual same sex romances in P3P just a year later.
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I don't remember those off hand.

shrinerr said:
characters crossdressing/ gender swapping has been a thing in anime/jrpg for quite some time. players who familiar with the genre have accepted it as commonplace, while players experiencing it for the first time are probably like,

"WELL THAT'S JAPAN FOR YA!!!"
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Yup. Just look at ff5 ff7.

 
shadowysea07 said:
I dunno I feel like there weren't any in it. The deepest it went was Kanji being insecure about his masculinity and naoto binding her breasts.

I don't remember those off hand.

Yup. Just look at ff5 ff7.
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FeMC can romance Elizabeth and Aigis. Don’t remember if MC can romance Theo.
 
Picked up Hero's Hour on humble the other day. $11.50 with discount. If you are a HOMM3 fan, its a fun pixel art version of it. Combat is auto-battle mostly being the main difference.

 
For aegis they just copy pasted from the mc route from what I understand but I don't believe either of those were actual romances like say shinjuro.
 
shadowysea07 said:
For aegis they just copy pasted from the mc route from what I understand but I don't believe either of those were actual romances like say shinjuro.
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Which is why both routes had original dialogue specifically referencing the fact that both parties were girls? The routes end as explicitly as the other romance routes, and are explicitly FxF. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, why make baseless assertions?
 
Mini demo impressions for Super Bullet Break:

A limited time demo is out for this game. In it you go into a virtual world with a gamer girl collecting bullets, which are similar to cards played like Slay the Spire. You choose events (similar to slay the spire) in order to help the different game worlds that have bugs in them. There is a bit of gacha and I don't understand the bullet abilities too much, and you can't always see well what the opponents are going to do, but it's a fun game. The sound and music are simple but nice. The bullets have very good illustrations and also have cute little avatars as well. You just develop a strategy for whatever bullets you get, like mine was discarding bullets to power up other bullets that got power from being discarded. Overall It's a fun game that feel a bit different than other Slay the Spire likes. I will buy it on release and it ran great. Controlled well with an Xbos Series X controller. 7.5/10

 
So Fallout 4 is surprisingly awesome on Steam Deck. Runs really well from what I can tell. After I’ve had a bit more time with the system, I think I’ll start to make a list of games that perform really well. I’ve run into a few with issues thus far, but the Deck seems pretty flexible. Navigating Linux is a steep learning curve, but I’m slowly learning how to get most things done. Still can’t get the Witcher 3 running through GOG, but Epic and Battlenet were easy installs.
 
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